Privacy notice

ZestyProbe is an independent editorial desk publishing written notes on free puzzle games listed on Google Play. This notice explains what personal information the site handles, why it is handled, and what you may ask us to do with it. It is written to meet the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

Who is responsible

The site zestyprobe.com is operated by the ZestyProbe editorial desk, based in New South Wales, Australia. Questions about this notice, and any request described below, should be sent to editor@zestyprobe.com. We answer within thirty days.

What we collect

• Information you type into the form on the home page: an email address, and a name if you choose to give one. There is no telephone field on this site and we do not ask for one.
• A record of your consent, kept in your browser as a single local-storage entry so the notice is not shown at every visit.
• Technical information created automatically by our hosting provider when a page is served: the requesting IP address, the browser user-agent string, the address of the page requested and the date and time.
• If you accept notifications, the anonymous device identifier that OneSignal creates for your browser, together with the tags the form sends: the domain name, the name you gave and the word describing where the request came from.

We do not run advertising code, we do not operate an analytics product on this site, and we do not build profiles of readers. We never ask for a card number, an identity document or a date of birth.

Why we handle it, and on what basis

• To send the monthly note about changes to the catalogue — on the basis of the consent you give by ticking the box on the form.
• To deliver browser notifications if you allow them — again on the basis of consent, given twice: once on our form and once in your browser prompt.
• To keep the site running, secure and reasonably fast — this is the ordinary operation of a web server and the log data is kept for that purpose only.
• To answer a message you send to the desk, using the address you wrote from.

Direct messages and the Spam Act

Email and notifications are sent only to people who asked for them. Every message identifies ZestyProbe as the sender, gives a working address for the desk and carries an unsubscribe link that works without charge, as required by the Spam Act 2003 (Cth). Acting on an unsubscribe request takes no more than five working days.

Who else sees the information

• OneSignal, the notification service that stores the device identifier and delivers the messages. OneSignal acts on our instructions and its servers are located outside Australia, principally in the United States; by accepting notifications you agree to that overseas disclosure under Australian Privacy Principle 8.
• Our hosting provider, which processes server log data in order to serve the pages.
• Nobody else. We do not sell, rent or trade personal information, and we do not pass an address to a game studio, an advertising network or a data broker.

How long it is kept

• Form data and notification identifiers: until you unsubscribe or ask us to erase them, and in any case no longer than twenty-four months after the last message you opened.
• Server logs: rolling ninety days, then overwritten.
• The consent record in your browser: until you clear your browser storage or press Decline in the notice at the foot of the page.

Your rights

Under the Australian Privacy Principles you may ask us for access to the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it if it is wrong, take back a consent you have given, or ask us to erase what we hold. Write to the desk and we will act on the request; there is no charge for a first access request.

If you are not satisfied with the answer, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au, which supervises the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Notifications: how to switch them off

Press Decline in the notice at the foot of any page and the site erases the OneSignal entries in local storage, in session storage and in the browser database it uses. You may also block notifications for zestyprobe.com in your browser settings, which stops delivery immediately and independently of us.

Children

This site is written for an adult audience and is not directed at people under fifteen years of age. We do not knowingly keep personal information about a person under fifteen; if you believe a child has sent us an address, write to the desk and it will be erased.

Security

The site is served over an encrypted connection. Access to the small amount of data the desk holds is limited to the two editors, protected by unique passwords and a second factor. No system is perfect, and if a data breach likely to cause serious harm ever occurs we will notify the affected readers and the Commissioner as the notifiable data breaches scheme requires.

Changes to this notice

If this notice changes we will publish the new version on this page with a fresh date at the top. This version takes effect on 18 August 2026.